After Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“When I imagined somebody whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.”

— Richelle Mead

“You know what I mean. From the residency.” “I don’t know what you—” “I placed a bug in Oleg’s car.” Then he switched into…

— Mark Greaney

“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”

— Andrew Solomon

“A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.”

— Haruki Murakami

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

— David Bezmozgis

“I took Russian in high school,” Nathan said, climbing out of the pool. He’d decided to swim laps that afternoon instead of going to…

— Kody Keplinger

“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.”

— Mark Twain

“Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've…

— James Goss

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the…

— Isabelle Huppert

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world…

— David M. Brown